FDNY Batt Chief using Highway Riser Bar
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Won't lie, kinda lame video. Before I clicked I half expected to see the truck running code with the bars extended.. Which would be awesome. (and excellent forward warning)
All the years fdny had those on the excursions Thats the first time i ever saw those being put to use, atleast one person in the department knows how to use them
pdk9
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In 23 years of living in manhattan, I can honestly say that this is the first time I've ever seen them in use by a FDNY batt chief or EMS supervisor. However, I bet most of them (on the remaining excursions that are still 10-8) don't work, due to lack of use & WD40 for 10+ years
lafd55
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Probably a EMS Supervisor. I too watched the video only looking at the GMC Chief's Car and I'm like that's not a Hi'Rise Bar...
pdk9 said:
I can count on 1, maybe 2 hands the number of times I've seen the FDNY Bat Chief cars raise the Risers since they were first installed in the late 80s/early 90s.
MESDA6
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Eric1249
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DalmatProd
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I wasn't that impressed by the video either. However, back in 1975, I took a youth group from greater Boston on a bus trip to Washington, D.C.
I believe that we were in either Maryland or Delaware, where the State Police had their emergency lights on a scissor-type lift. We first saw the lights from a decent distance away and couldn't figure out what they were. As we approached, they remained "high" and I couldn't understand how. Then, as we got closer to the scene, I saw the lift for the first time.
Does anyone know if, besides the semi-example from NYC, anyone still uses rising lights?
Steve
I believe that we were in either Maryland or Delaware, where the State Police had their emergency lights on a scissor-type lift. We first saw the lights from a decent distance away and couldn't figure out what they were. As we approached, they remained "high" and I couldn't understand how. Then, as we got closer to the scene, I saw the lift for the first time.
Does anyone know if, besides the semi-example from NYC, anyone still uses rising lights?
Steve
MESDA6
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DalmatProd said:
Somewhere, in one of the threads here there was a picture of one of those MD State Police Cars with that rising bar on it. I grew up there and never saw one, but I recall hearing that it was a test of some kind and only a few cars had them for a trial period. They never went fleet wide with them.